Stocking or half hose and method of making the same



Ma-rch 19, 1935 RA H, LAWSON ET Al.

STOGKING OR HALF HOSE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed March 8, 1932 ./NV5NT0RS;

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Patented Mar'. 19, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE STOCKING OR HALF HOSE AND DIETHOD OFrMAKlNG THE SAME Application March 8,

4 Claims.

This invention relatesto a new and improved selvage fabric, such as a stocking or half hose, and to a method of knitting the same.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a view showing the stitch formation of a portion of the fabric;

Fig. 2 is a more or less diagrammatic plan view showing the cooperative action of the plain and rib needles;

Fig. 2a is a detail view showing the action of a plain needle and a rib needle at the left side of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 3 is a diagramm half hose.

The stocking indicated generally by the numeral 1, is provided with a top 2 which is knitted with two threads 3 and 4, the thread 3 being knitted by plain needles such as the cylinder needles of a dial and cylinder knitting machine, while the thread 4 is knitted by rib needles such as dial needles of the aforesaid dial and cylinder machine. As shown in Fig. 1, the plain or cylinder needles knit a series of wales 5, 6, '7, 8 and 9, and the dial or rib needles knit wales such as 10 and 11, such rib or dial wales being superposed on the plain or cylinder wales 6 and 8 lrespectively.

I'he fabric disclosed in Fig. 1, shows the structure of a few wales and courses of the top 2 of atic View of a stocking or the stocking as welll as of the leg portion thereof.

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. The wales and courses Jshown in Fig. 1, include the last waste course 12 and the selvage courses 13 and 14, the course 13 being knitted on all of the plain or cylinder needles while the course 14 is being knitted on the rib or dial needles of which there are half as many as there are plain or cylinder needles. Upon removal of the last course 12 by cutting or otherwise, the threads 3 and 4 will not ravel, being interlocked in the manner indicated at 15 and 16, Fig. 1, the courses 13, 14 thus constituting selvage courses.

Although as stated, removal of the last waste course 12 causes the courses 13 and 14 to form selvage courses, the fabric may also`be-.severed at any place in the fabric such as across the courses 13 and -14, the succeeding courses then constituting the selvage of the fabric.

'Ihe courses 13 and 14, a plurality of which are shown, are knitted by the cooperative action of the plain and rib needles, all of the plain needles 17 knitting a thread 3 which is fed thereto through the instrumentality of a yarn guide or.

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etc., which plain needles descend as indicated in Fig. 2a, after which the rib needles 19'are rer tracted to knit. rI'he thread 4 is fed to the cylinder needles in the manneraforesaid through the instrumentality of a yarn guide or lever 21. Although the alternate cylinder needles 20 engage the thread or yarn 4 in their hooks, they are not raised at the auxiliary feed station (adjacent to the lever 21) to such a position as to permit the old loops 22 to drop oi their latches 23 but such loops 22 remain hanging thereon as shown in Fig. 2a and as a consequence thereof, the old loops 22 (Fig. 2a) and the bights of yarn 4 engaged by the hooks of the needles 20 are both cast off the latches when the said plain needles 20 are actuatedto knit at the main feed station (adjacent to the yarn lever 18) The knitting operations just described, cause the thread or yarn 4 to appear in the knitted fabric as bights or loops 24 at the plain wales, and the superposed rib wales 10, 11, etc., which are knitted at the auxiliary feed station by the dial needles 19 knitting a thread 4, are shown (Fig. 1) at the inner face of the fabric and as covering the wales 6, 8, etc., which are knitted on the cylinder needles other than the needles 20, the other plain wales 5, 7, 9, etc., not being covered by rib wales although as herelnbefore stated, the bights `or loops 24 show at such plain wales 4,5, 7, 9, etc. A

In Fig. 1, the plainand rib loops are shown as being much longer than the stitches such as 25 and 26 thereafter knitted by the plain and rib needles, respectively, and although the loops or stitches drawn by the rib needles during the knitting of courses 14, are relatively elongated due to. the fact that the thread drawn byr the plain needles as they are actuated at the auxiliary feed station, is given up to such rib needles, the stitches knitted by the plain needles during the knitting of lcourses 13, are not relatively elongated although so shown in Fig. 1 for the purpose of clearly illustrating the method of knitting. I

Subsequently to the knitting 0f a desired number of courses 13 and 14, the plainneedles 20 cease to be actuated at the, auxiliary feed station lii to engage yarn 4 in their hooks, and consequently courses 28 by the rib needles the latches of the rib needles are closed by the loopsor stitches thereunder and inclosing the said latches push the newly laid thread into the hooks of the said rib needles. II desired, the last or other course 28 may be sewed to the plain courses 27 which constitute the leg. of a stocking.

Subsequentlyto the knitting of the top of the stocking in the manner described, the leg and remaining portions of the stocking including the heel, toe and high splice are knitted in any desired manner.

In the specication and claims, some of the wales, such as the wales 5, 7, 9, are referred to as being alternate wales andthe needles knitting the same are referred to as being alternate needles. By the term alternate, there is no intention thereby to limit the scope of the invention to the rst, third, th, etc. wales of -a fabric as other desired groupings of wales, knitted as are the wales 6, -10, 8, 11 and wales 5, 7, 9, may be resorted to` and be Within the intended scope of the term ffalternate.

Although as hereinbefore described, the invention is primarily adapted for use in a stocking, nevertheless the fabric structure disclosed in Fig. 1, has other uses.

We claim:

,1. A rib knittedselvage all of the wales of which have plain wale stitches, alternate rib Wale stitches superposed over some of the plain' wale stitches, the plain Wale stitches and the lrib wale stitches being composed of separate threads, the thread comprising the rib wales being also incorporated, but not knitted, in plain wales.

2. A method of lmitting a selvage fabric on two sets of needles consisting in causing all of one set of needles to knit one thread only and causing all of the needles o1' the other set to knit a second thread only and at the same time causing suchfsecond mentioned thread to be incorporated in the wales knitted by some of the needles ilrst mentioned but not to be knitted thereby. l

3. A method of knitting a selvage on twosets of needles, consisting in causing all the needles of one set to knit o ne thread only and all the needles of another set to knit another thread only, the alternate needles of the rst set being caused to engage the thread second mentioned in their hooks but not to knit the same.

s 4. A rib knitted selvage consisting of onev thread knitted at all of the wales and another thread knitted at some of the wales, the wales rst mentioned being plain wales and the wales second mentioned being rib wales, the' thread second mentioned being also incorporated but not 

